Assume that any photo is a library photo, not the actual item you will receive, unless expressly mentioned above. If Kinect proves to be a better motion-control experience than the PlayStation Move, it may be the muscle Microsoft needs to push the Xbox 360 to the top of the heap. On June 7, 2011, Microsoft announced a "Limited Collector's Edition" (LCE) Xbox 360 S console to coincide with the launch of Gears of War 3 (September 20, 2011). It is a revision of the S model with a new Xbox One-inspired casing, carrying a more rectangular appearance and a two-tone color scheme.

The 250 GB Holiday Value Bundle included a physical copy of Halo 4 and a digital download voucher for Tomb Raider. On the Slim and E models, the hard drive bay is on the bottom when vertical (right side when horizontal) and requires the opening of a concealed door to access it.a 250 GB Elite consoles and 320 GB Xbox 360 S consoles are/were only available as part of limited/special edition bundles (see below). The Xbox 360 was released on November 22, 2005, in the United States and Canada; [5] December 2, 2005, in Europe and December 10, 2005, in Japan. While making the outside smaller, we decided to give a pretty serious boost to the inside – from huge to massive in one fell swoop. The bundle contains a red 120 GB Xbox 360 Elite, a red wireless controller, a black wired headset, an Ethernet cable, a standard definition composite A/V cable, an HDMI cable, a physical copy of the game, an exclusive dashboard theme, and a digital voucher to download Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix from the Xbox Live Marketplace. The console was released on November 8, 2011 in North America, Australasia and the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region.

It was first announced on June 1, 2009, at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, under the codename, Project Natal. Interestingly the system detects it as if it were connected externally, but it's right in there, meaning no dongles for you (unless if you want 5GHz 802. The internal hardware was redesigned using a new motherboard codenamed "Valhalla", which integrates the CPU, GPU, and eDRAM into a single package using a 45 nm fabrication process. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. To promote The Simpsons Movie, Microsoft created a specially designed, yellow Xbox 360 Pro console with The Simpsons Movie based artwork.The press release in which it was announced also revealed that it not only captures the look and feel of the game, but also features custom sound effects from the Halo universe that are played when the console is switched on and off or when the disc tray is opened and closed. g Component HD A/V Cable, [c] [h] HDMI cable and HDMI Audio Adapter [d] were included with the 120 GB model prior to September 2009. Furthermore, the Xbox 360 managed to outsell both the PlayStation 3 and Wii the week ending September 14, 2008, as well as the week ending February 22, 2009, when the Japanese Xbox 360 exclusives Infinite Undiscovery [68] and Star Ocean: The Last Hope, [69] were released those weeks, respectively. In the US, the Xbox 360 was the leader in current-generation home console sales until June 2008, when it was surpassed by the Wii. Moore also said that going forward, all future models of the Xbox 360 would not have names and would only be designated by their memory capacity.